Lives at Risk: Hostages and Victims in American Foreign Policy

by Russell D. Buhite

Lives at Risk: Hostages and Victims in American Foreign Policy is the first book that provides the historical content needed to understand terrorism and America's responses to terrorist acts. Historian Russell D. Buhite here examines key instances of hostage-taking throughout U.S. history, from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s, and shows how our policies have evolved and how previous experiences can help us deal with terrorist threats...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0842025537
• ISBN13: 9780842025539
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"